An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred
to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and
stars, and sometimes, when they reflect the brazen light of a rich
though rainy sunset, appear like a pyramid of flame burning
heavenward. See "The Friend," by S. T. Coleridge, No. 14, p. 223.